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So this season we’ve got two really standout shows: Takopi & Food Court. Both are just 6 episodes. Not 12. Not split-cour. Just a tight, digestible 6-ep run. At first I thought it was just a quirk, but now I’m starting to think this might actually be the future of anime. 6 eps means they can run two shows instead of a single show with 12 eps. And people's attention span are shortening making 6 an optimal amount of eps.
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No. they'll skip straight to 1 minute clips and only release on tiktok and reels and shit.
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No. they'll skip straight to 1 minute clips and only release on tiktok and reels and shit.
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And people's attention span are shortening making 6 an optimal amount of eps.

I don't think you understand what the word attention span means.
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Takopi is fairly well paced and every episode is packed with relevant content, that's how it should be.
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Its not the future at all, the way both series were written, call to such short runs. In fact the future is already here, now that everything is 12-13 eps as a cour or standalone season or 24 eps. Some are a bit longer and hit 30s at most. In the past, we had long running and we saw how that affected the anime industry and their staff. These two examples are simply anomalies that get their job done without overdoing it.


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God no! Takopii was super inconsistent. 6 eps is so short for most stories that at that point I may as well watch a movie which are around as long.
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No, 6 episodes is too short and takopii's first episode was an hour-long episode.
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I actually want longer anime's. I prefer 24 eps (Not curs), or even longer.

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you haves shit taste for liking those 2 garbage shows, go watch good anime , you pantomime!
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There is general historic tendency to more and more shorter "standard seasons", but right now even 12 episode show/seasons is suffer to made strong long term impact, so I don't see how even shorter one may work.

Sometimes such short shows can flash very brightly and quickly, but are just as quickly forgotten.
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Ngl this post tells me you haven't watched a lot of old anime. Prior to the 2000s, there were a lot of >10 episode anime series in the form of OVAs. Also the only reason Takopi was like that was because it's based off a short manga.
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More like it was already a thing in the past like with OVA series.
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I think Takopi suffered slightly because of 6 episodes. Maybe not 12 is not needed but 1-2 more episode was needed to pull off the ending better way. Felt rushed, inconsistent and way too happy go lucky.

Ik it's based on Manga so that's why it's short. But still applies same for manga with more chapters to flush out the last timeline.
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it depends on the source material anime adapts, the reason why takopi original sins was 6 eps it because this adapted 2 volumes of the manga, but for the anime that covers 4 volumes of the manga that are especially dense and text heavy that would be terrible adaptation. It also varies with how dense text heavy and crammed the weekly manga material is since this is what most anime adaptations based on the manga are before determining how many volumes in the season it covers let alone the monthly manga which are even more denser with material and longer than weekly manga due to them relasing once a month thus mangaka having unlimated chapter length on avareage full 45 to 70 pages that then allows mangaka now put as much content as they want than they already could do in weekly manga.
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In that case, I don't think I'd be an anime fan any longer, especially as an enjoyer of the longer ones.
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I think Takopi suffered slightly because of 6 episodes. Maybe not 12 is not needed but 1-2 more episode was needed to pull off the ending better way. Felt rushed, inconsistent and way too happy go lucky.

Ik it's based on Manga so that's why it's short. But still applies same for manga with more chapters to flush out the last timeline.
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Episode length varied from 21 to over 37 minutes long. First episode was longest nearly the length of two episodes. So technically it was equivalent to 7 episodes. They did it how they did to fit the episode formatting it maybe would have not split up well with more episodes, I dont know. So if cutting out repeat OPs and EDs 2 hours and 30 minutes very roughly.
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We could have discussed about the advantages of an irregular amount of episodes not constrained by the cour schedule, but OP always has to make the most disingenuous bait threads (but he's not the n°1 at doing this on MAL, I'd say he's in 2nd place).
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Well, I don't think so. 6 episodes is just too little time to tell a story (generally). Of course there are exceptions like Takopi but I would never make 6 episode animes my main form of entertainment and I think most people would tend to think that way.
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It wouldn't make sense given the television seasonal schedules. If it became the norm, you'd be having shows abruptly end halfway through the season and would require another show to start up in its time slot. And generally shows that start late in the season tend not to get picked up by viewers or have the hype that seasonal openers do, so I couldn't see the producers wanting that.
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@valico is that a good or bad thing? Please tell us.
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I don't think 6 episodes is long enough; it is too short.
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they aren't even better in the present.
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I dont really think so, some animes takes 6 episodes just to get you to know the characters.

And about the attention spam is really simple: No, we shouldnt be rewarding mediocrity so it gets worse. We must search to improve it. And animes are like 25 minutes long, it is not a full 3-4 hours documentary.
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God, I hope not. 12 episode Shows suck enough as it is. Just trying to cram everything if they are adapting a Manga in that few episodes is bad enough. 6? OMG. It's the END.
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6 x 24 minutes is the same as 12 x 12 minutes we've had for a long time

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